Relationship between Additional Prescribing Authorization Rates and Work Environment Variables among Clinically Deployed Hospital Pharmacists

摘要

Background: Additional Prescribing Authorization (APA) legislation was introduced in 2007. Currently 47.2% of clinically deployed hospital pharmacists (CDHPs) within the organization have APA. The organization's Pharmacy Services program has set a strategic target of 75% by 2018. Pharmacy Services endeavours to understand the effect of facility category and municipality size work environment variables, if any, on APA acquisition, to develop and target most effective supportive programming for remaining non-APA CDHPs. Description: APA status allows pharmacists to independently prescribe schedule 1 drugs at initial access and to manage ongoing patient therapy based on their own patient assessment or in collaboration with other practitioners.